Virginia Eyes Major Interstate Relocation If Federal Plan Passes
Virginia projects see 600 million dollars anticipated from a 13 year federal road program. Highway officials warn up to half of the 1000 mile interstate in the state may need relocation and wider rights of way. Allocation changes total 43.9 million for 1956 57 primary system improvements with specific edits in Bland and Lancaster counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
James Anderson
State Highway Department
Anderson
Congress
Old Dominion
Governing Highway Commission
Fredericksburg
Culpeper
Suffolk
George B. Felix
Eisenhower
James A. Anderson
Felix
Bland County
Rt. 21
Bland
South Gap
Tazewell
Russell
Bristol
Lancaster County
Irvington
Salem
Lynchburg
Staunton
Waitress Indicted For Killing Six Persons
The 49-year-old Rhonda Belle Martin, a Montgomery waitress, admitted poisoning her mother three daughters and two husbands with arsenic. A grand jury added three more murder counts, bringing total charges to six. Ronald C. Martin, 28, a surviving victim, is paralyzed from arsenic effects. Trial set for the week of June 4 with death as maximum penalty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Rhonda Belle Martin
Montgomery County
Deaths and Funerals in Princeton Area
Funeral notices report Lt. Eugene C. Johnson Jr. shot to death at Edgewood Maryland and honored by the 150th Cavalry. Other obituaries include Glen R. Davis of McComas, John Clark Keene of Mud Fork, and staff Sgt. Robert J. Staples of Lashmeet. Services set at Princeton First Christian Church and local churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Johnson JR
Army
Eugene C. Johnson Jr
Army Chemical Center
Edgewood
George Roberts
Seaver Mortuary
Princeton
Frank Serge
Clyde Johnson
Sam Vickers
Eugene McDowell
Virgil McDowell
Carvey MccDowell
150Th Cavalry Regiment
Company H
National Guard
John Clark Keene
Mud Fork Christian Church
St. Luke’s Hospital
Bluefield
Keene
Pocahontas Fuel Co
Pocahontas Funeral
Keene Home
Charles M. Sublette
Marlewood
North Tazewell
Sylvan Wiley
John W. Riley
Grat Shrader
Walter Hedrick
James Billips
Abe Lurber
Albert Sluss
Elmore Shrader
Horsepen Cove
Tazewell County
Mud Fork
Emporia
Janice Keene
Ronnie Keene
James Keene
Hollister
Fla
Claude Bostic
Centerbury
Ohio
Will
Irvin Keene
Maringo
Dudley Keene
Idaho
Robert J. Staples
Lashmeet
Mobile
Ala
Cravens Funeral Home
Montcalm
Baltimore seeks Roanoke rape suspect Frank Snider
Baltimore police filed a detainer with Gadsden Alabama authorities for Frank Snider 31 a former Baltimore resident wanted for questioning in several rapes including a ten year old girl in Roanoke police say he was arrested in Alabama on unlawful flight charges Snider lived in Baltimore from February until last week and is originally from Michigan.
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Baltimore
Gadsden
Ala
Frank Snider
Snider
Roanoke
Fromchigan
Kiwanis Club to Hear 56 Coal Show Talk
Jack J. Adams industrial agent for the N and W will speak at the Kiwanis Club lunch meeting Monday. He is expected to discuss the 1956 Coal Show. The club board meets at 7 30 p m Monday at the West Virginian Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Jack J. Adams
N&w
Weat Virginian
Funerals for McFarland and Two Others Serviced
Mrs. Edward McFarland 65 of Burkes Garden Va. to be laid to rest at Burkes Garden Central Church with interment in the church cemetery at 2:30 p.m. today. A2C Coy J Wood 24 of Princeton to be honored tomorrow at First Church of God Straley Avenue Princeton with interment at Rest Haven Memorial Park. Kenneth M Dmnn 24, a former Princeton resident, to be buried today at Harrisburg Cemetery after services at Fisher Funeral Chapel Harrisburg Pa.
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Lugo
The
Missionary Society of the Church
Lena France
Mary Coles
Ora Hooper
Ida Valentine
Susie Washington
Rosa Simms
Mamie Spicer
Minnie Williams
Princeton Lodge No
AF & A M Masons
Glen R. Davis
McComas
Detroit
Mich
Hypes
Thomas Memorial Church
Woodlawn Cemetery
Davis
General Motors Company
U. S. Army
Bluefield
Cravens Funeral
Montcalm
Luther M. Davis
Delores Crace
Glenna
Betty Ann
Richard McKinley Davis
Aretta Cray
Caribou
Shelby Kade
Dearborn
Bernard
Atlas Davis
Bobby Davis
U. S. Navy
Edwin O. Cole
Bruce Short
Garland Elmore
Gay Wyatt
Curtis Bell
Buddy Perkins
Bessie Lee
Pine St
Princeton
Mt. Calvary Baptist Church
L. B. Allen
Lincoln Park
Lee
Rocky Mount
Isobel Folk Wilson
McFarland
Edward Sr
Burkes Garden
Burkes Garden Central Church
DMNN
Kenneth M
Fisher Funeral Chapel
Harrisburg
Weekend regional forecast across Mid-Atlantic and Appalachians
Weather outlook shows fair and cooler conditions Sunday across West Virginia Virginia Maryland and Ohio. Saturday brings scattered showers or thundershowers in multiple states with highs mainly mid 70s to mid 80s and mild to warm temperatures overall. Kentucky and Tennessee expect partly cloudy skies with widely scattered thundershowers Saturday night and cooler conditions Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Weather Bureau report of Washington temps and rainfall
The Weather Bureau release from Washington covers the 24 hours ending 7 p.m. May 18 detailing temperatures across the area and rainfall totals. It notes variations by location and conditions typical for spring with periods of rain and clearer intervals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Weather Bureau
State Police Investigate Bramwell Truck Theft
State Police are investigating the theft of a heavy duty dump truck and a toolbox from the Joe Lene strip operation near Bramwell. The 1953 Chevrolet tandem was driven off during the night Thursday. The owner, Lene of North Tazewell Virginia, valued the missing property at 6000 dollars. West Virginia license B 91 100 was on the truck. Trooper J Fred Wynne and Deputy Sheriff Bill Foster lead the inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Lene
Bramwell
Lene
North Tazewell
West Virginia
J. Fred Wynne
Bill Foster
Marland Urged To Hurry Home
Baltimore editorial voice questions Gov William C Marland West Virginia on industrial expansion trips. It warns about industrial cannibalism and jokes about a stolen license plate as a reminder to protect state industries and ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marland
Baltimore
The
Evening Sun
William C. Marland
West Virginia
Rhode Island
Connecticut
McKeldin
Richlands Merchants Reorganize At Mullens Motel
Thirty five Richlands retailers met at Mullens Motel to reorganize the Retail Merchants Association and form a new Businessmen Association. A board of directors will include one member from each merchant type to set policy. Leck Hawkins, current president, presided as the plan was approved for immediate effect. A forthcoming board meeting is scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richlands
Mullens Motel
Retail Merchants Association
Leck Hawkins
Tazewell Farmers Get Wheat Acreage Notice
TAZEWELL Va June 15 is the date by which wheat growers may utilize their excess wheat according to Jim Sam Gillespie county chairman for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee. Acreage in excess of the larger farm allotment or 15 acres not used for green manure pasture hay or silage will face a penalty rate of 1 07 per bushel. Farmers who plant other grain for mixture must keep weight content under 50 percent both when seeded and harvested to stay within the marketing quota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tazewell
Jim Sam Gillespie
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee
Vesper Services Scheduled for Keystone Juniors Tomorrow
Vesper services for Keystone Junior High ninth graders are set for 5 pm tomorrow at the school house in the new gym. There will be no Keystone Methodist Church 11 am service due to the Northfork Elkhorn school graduation sermon in Northfork. Church members are invited to attend the Keystone vesper and the Northfork service. Regular Sunday School classes begin at 9 45 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keystone
Keystone Methodist Church
Northfork-Elkhorn
Northfork
Forces Parade Marks Armed Forces Week in Princeton
Mercer county hosts a Forces Week parade in Princeton with four high school bands and floats for each military recruitment agency along with Civil Air Patrol and reserve units. Bluefield observed Armed Forces Day with a luncheon led by Brigadier General Philip Lindeman and remarks on military service and national defense.
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National Armed Forces
Mercer County
Princeton
Civil Air Patrol
Reserve
Bluefield
Armed Forces
Bluefield Auditorium
Philip Lindeman
Colege
W. L. Gillespie
Armed Forces Week
Lindeman
Elizabeth Kee
Congress
Fifth Congressional District
W. L. Thornton
Virginia Side
J. Hudson Hutfford
H. A. Praeger
Greenbrier Military School
Gordon Thomas
National Guard
O. W. Lynch
E. V. Berry
Joseph H. Barkley
Beckley
West Virginia Military District
James Kee
District of Columbia
Fort Eustis
William L. Kell
Veterans’ Organizations
State Committee Seeks North South Roads in WV
A two hour meeting in the House of Delegates chamber led to forming a committee to press for more North South mileage in West Virginia as part of the federal interstate highway plan. The panel will be named by Turnpike Commission Chair A Garnett Thompson and will liaise with Washington highway bill conferees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
West Virginia
House of Delegates
State Road Commission
Turnpike Commission
Robert W. Hanna
Fairmont
Assu
A. Garnett Thompson
Washington
Garages Ordered to Install Inflation Safety Cages
The State Labor Department directed garages and tire shops to install inflation cages as a safety measure. Labor Commissioner Charles J. F. Sattler said cages prevent injury when rims fail during inflation, citing multiple deaths and injuries in recent months. Inspectors were ordered to enforce the regulation in service stations tire shops and garages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
State Labor Department
Charles J. F. Sattler
Sattler
Rakosi Confesses Guilt in Stalin Era Policy
Matyas Rakosi, Hungary’s communist leader, admitted guilt for practicing a Stalin like dictatorship and being partly responsible for purge trials. In a Budapest speech to the Hungarian Workers party he apologized and pledged reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Austria
Hungary
Matyas Rakosi
Rakosi
Budapest
Hungarian Workers (Communist) Party
Shipment Of Half-Tracks Stopped For Israel
The State Department said 21 fully assembled half-track military vehicles were removed from a ship bound for Israel in New York Harbor because they lacked a valid export license. The license covered spare parts, not complete vehicles, and Israel had a pending license request for fully assembled units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Israel
Lincoln White
New York
White
Israel Purchasing Division
Middle East
Saudi Arabia
Defense Department
Sen
Lehman
Abba Bhban
U. S
Tongay Charges Police Officials In Raiford Prison
Russell Tongay, serving 10 years for manslaughter in his daughter Kathy's high diving death, claims he has been beaten and confined in a dungeon on bread and water at Raiford State Prison. He wrote to a friend. warden De Witt Sinclair dismisses the charge as publicity seeking and places Tongay in maximum security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raiford
Fla
Russell Tongay
Tongay
William Burrell Jr
Coral Gables
Miami Daily News
DeWitt Sinclair
Sinclair
Kathy
Bubba
Aquators
Damon Runyon Jr
Joe Grotegut
Leroy Collins
New Orleans
Los Angeles
Mobile
Stalinism Critiqued In Soviet Youth Paper
In Moscow on May 18 a new Soviet youth edition targets Stalin worship. The Komsomol Pravda column “A Children's Guide to Stalinism” cites Lenin’s warnings from 1922–23, portraying Stalin as harsh and unsuitable for party leadership.
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Moscow
Stalin
Lenin
Komsomol Pravda
Communist Party
Roanoke Man Nabbed For Borrowing Films
Roanoke Washington crime report says James Henry Clemer 48 of Roanoke used alias J C Henry to steal 28 travel films from 13 sources since 1954. He falsely claimed a Plat ter Club luncheon as reason to borrow them and resold screenings in Roanoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roanoke
James Henry Clemer
Clemer
Benjamin D. Clark
J. C. Henry
Alexandria
Platter Club
Clark
Bomb Test Delayed Yet Again Off Eniwetok
The H bomb test near Eniwetok Island is postponed to a later U S time. A light bomber taking part in the test crashed Friday, and one crewman was rescued while another remains missing after a 30 hour search. Capt James Edward Hall, 29, survived. Capt Paul M Crumley remains missing.
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Uss
MT. Mckinley
Bikini
U. S
Eniwetok Island
James Edward Hall
Mildred Jean
Caruthersville
Bartlesville
Okla
Paul M. Crumley
Cross Burning Probe Ties to Ku Klux Klan in New Orleans
Acting Police Supt. Guy Banister ordered a full investigation after an eight foot cross soaked in gasoline was burned outside Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel’s residence at Notre Dame Seminary. Banister warned against Klan activity, noting cross burning as a Klan trademark and citing the outlaw status of the group. Archbishop Rummel pledged a response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Guy Banister
Joseph Francis Rummel
Notre Dame Seminary
Banister
Ku Klux Klan
Archbishop Rummel
In Memoriam John H. Kirtley
Obituary notice stating John H. Kirtley died May 18, 1953 and that three years have passed. Signed by his mother Rosa Trigg brother George E. Kirtley and sister Jennie E. Rodgers with a hopeful prayer of reunion in a better place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Kirtley
Rosa Trigg
George E. Kirtley
Jennie E. Rodgers
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